"Reader" is a wonderful movie that can be viewed and thought from many angles, and it will always be a complete movie. It can be a story about a boy’s growth, it can be about a woman’s life and her painful choice between dignity and suffering, it can be a narrative of the complex feelings of two people throughout their lives, and it can be spiritual. Power, it can be the entanglement of lust, the inquiry of ethics. At the same time, it can also be a story between two people to remember the torture and reflection on history. The appearance of the film is lust, but in its bones it is actually a heavy and sad history.
The story shown in "Reader" is not about how to structure a story, nor about how to weave the progress of characters and events, but about why the story is like this. The audience may wonder why the protagonist Hannah behaves like this, stubbornly trading freedom for dignity. But in fact, the director gave room for imagination outside the structural space, allowing the audience to imagine through the fate of women. The film has spanned forty years. How to let the past influence the present has become the difficulty of the whole film structure. The power of time passing is so powerful that all love can be wiped out in trivial matters. However, the male protagonist of this movie has been deeply in love with the woman who turns on his body and the wheel of fortune, and has to be deeply moved.
"Long Reader" gives viewers infinite thinking and thinking with its rich content and multi-dimensional perspective. The reflection on war and the contradictions of human nature in the face of evil in the film attract the audience to interpret and explain.
"Reader" easily touches the sensitive nerves of the audience and is very attractive, but it seems to be more than just a love story.
